Last week, a New Mexico judge upheld the state’s universal childcare program, a victory for those who see greater public spending as the key to making childcare affordable. But there is a better way to lower costs: Reducing the regulations that make childcare so expensive in the first place.

Consider the recent overhaul of the childcare policy landscape by Assistant Secretary for Family Support Alex J. Adams, who leads the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and recently unveiled a package of deregulating reforms. He is hardly the radical that critics — who argue his efforts would “endanger the children” — claim. 

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